I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“I know time doesn't heal. That's the silliest idea of all.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental diurnal patterns – they don’t go without saying: they are acquired, if not violently imposed. It is a lived and not an abstract form of knowledge that comes from living alongside a beginner – the way the days can all of a sudden feel like they're undivided, divided by nothing, only water.”
Source: The Long Form
“I know time is limited and pain is unwanted, however time is required, and pain is inevitable.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.”
“I know to be patient when it comes to creating a piece of art. It’s not the outcome that matters: it’s the trying. I’ll only get better through failure. Because each time I fail, I learn and I change so that every time I get closer to creating what I see in my head.”
Source: Crazy Messy Beautiful
“I know today that appreciating your own beauty does not come solely from therapy, make up application, or plastic surgery- although these things can help. Rather, it comes from a little door that opens in our minds and helps us celebrate our differences and find pride in our uniqueness.”
Source: The New Beauty Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide to a Flawless Face
“I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.”
Source: COLLECTED WORKS OF JOHN STUART MILL.
“I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone to something else because they got such a raw deal from critics, and some are quite wonderful writers.”
“I know too much and not enough”
Source: Collected Poems 1947-1997
“I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.”
“I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.”
“I know too much; I've seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. So I am learning to pretend, to smile, to nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.”
“I know, too, that once a family has acquired a habit of secrecy, memories begin to distort, because its members confabulate to cover the gaps in the facts; you have to make some sort of sense of what's going on around you, so you cobble together a narrative as best you can. You add to it, and reason about it, and the distortions breed distortions.”
Source: Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir
“I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.”
“I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.”
“I know too well how
good-bye can steal more than just the future.”
Source: Spies and Prejudice
“I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I know too well how you can go from feeling like your sister knows you better than anyone else in the world, to feeling jealous of her, to wanting to strangle her ha-ha.”
“I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.”
“I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.”
Source: A Chaplet of Verses
“I know, too, why she asked me not to forget her. Naoko herself knew, of course. She knew that my memories of her would fade. Which is precisely why she begged me never to forget her, to remember that she had existed.
The thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow. Because Naoko never loved me.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.”
Source: In Memoriam
“I know true love. This love lives inside me, in my breast, and i must give this love to someone, i cannot just throw it away. Otherwise i would throw my heart away too and die.”
Source: Je pars… mais je reviendrai
“I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and can only rarely be seen, and has never been reached. And what you see of it, moreover, depends upon the flank of the mountain you stand upon, and how exhausted getting even so far has made you. Virtue lies in looking upwards, toiling upwards, and sometimes joyously leaping from one precarious crag of fact and feeling to the next.”
Source: The President’s Child
“I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.”
“I know two types of law because I know two types of men, those who are with us and those who are against us.”
“I know Ty’s not all there.” Nick said, tapping his temple with a finger. “He has always been a step away from the wrong path. One screw comes loose, and he’s gone. The only thing keeps him on the side of the righteous is his loyalty. His sense of purpose. You take that from him? And you’re looking into the eyes of a monster.”
Source: Touch & Geaux
“I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater—'
'She's foul enough to be one…'
'Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters', said Sirius with a wry smile. 'I know she’s a nasty piece of work though'.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.”
“I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.”
“I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.”
“I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.”
“I know very few writers who outline fully before they start. It just doesn't seem possible to do, because so many things don't come out until you're absolutely knee-deep in the world.”
“I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.”
Source: VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF
“I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.”
“I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.”
Source: The Fair Fight
“I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.”
“I know very little with anything approaching certainty. I know that I was born, that I exist, and that I will die. For the most part, I can trust my brain's interpretation of the data presented to my senses: this is a rose, that is a car, she is my wife. I do not doubt the reality of the thoughts and emotions and impulses I experience in response to these things. . . . Yet apart from these primary perceptions, intuitions, inferences, and bits of information, the views that I hold about the things that really matter to me--meaning, truth, happiness, goodness, beauty--are finely woven tissues of belief and opinion.”
Source: Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
“I know very much what I believe.”
“I know very well about the necessary level of reserves of the Central Bank as well as the purpose.”
“I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?”
“I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.”
“I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more.”
“I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury.”
Source: Phineas Redux
“I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.”
“I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.”
“I know very well that the political classes have spread fear among the electorate: Without the euro, the sun will cease shining, the rivers will stop flowing, we will enter an ice age.”
“I know very well the hell ... because many others are talking about paradise !! Hesham Nebr
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انا اعرف جيدا الجحيم ...لان كثير... أخرون يتحدثون عن الجنة !! .............. هشام نيبر”
“I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them.”
Source: Constable: paintings, drawings and watercolours